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Word: tested (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested in 44 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Character of the Filipinos | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Coach Hal Ulen's Varsity swimmers will cross the Rubicon tonight, as they meet a strong Brown team in the Crimson's first major test of the current campaign...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: Brilliant Brown Swimmers Face Crimson Here Tonight | 1/14/1942 | See Source »

...pungent General Pownall would prove to be in his new job, no one could tell last week. Like all men entering on new duties, he was praised. But the only true test would be his performance-the immediate index of which would be results in Malaya, the ultimate index results in all eastern Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Report on a Grimness | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...fiddle at 28, had a job of another kind to do. This time his mission was to bomb the British in Malaya. This time he was greeted by R.A.F. pilots, who paid their tribute in lead. Their bullets found Pilot Iinuma, wounded him mortally. As one last supreme test of his endurance, he managed to fly his plane back to its base. Then he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Pilot Iinuma's Lesson | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Coordinating Professor Casner's advisory bureau with the psychology department at the Hygiene Building would be an excellent means of salvaging brains that will otherwise be wasted in the ranks of the buck privates. The Department of Hygiene has effective aptitude tests--the Kuder test and the Strong Vocational Aptitude Test are among these. The most thorough-going vocational tests, such as those prepared by the University of Chicago, are efficient, but too elaborate to be tired here at this time. The Hygiene Department is already using the Kuder Test, which uncovers unsuspected interests and aptitudes by questions involving choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Fifth Wheels | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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